Igor Vasilyev was a Russian actor of the Moscow Art Theatre. He was
born Igor Alekseevich Vasilyev on May 20, 1938, in Moscow, Soviet Union
(now Moscow, Russia). He studied acting at the School of Moscow Art
Theatre, graduating in 1961 as actor. From 1964 to 1970 he was a
permanent member of the troupe at Sovremennik Theatre in Moscow. There
his stage partners were such actor as
Oleg Efremov,
Evgeniy Evstigneev,
Galina Volchek,
Stanislav Lyubshin,
Anatoliy Romashin,
Alla Pokrovskaya,
Oleg Tabakov,
Oleg Dal,
Igor Kvasha,
Valentin Gaft and other notable Russian
actors.
From 1970 to 2007 Vasilyev was a member of the troupe at Moscow Art
Theatre (MKhAT). There he made such memorable appearances as Zilov in
'Utinaya Okhota' by
Aleksandr Vampilov, as Svidrigailov
in 'Crime and Punishment' - adaptation of the eponymous novel by
Fyodor Dostoevsky, and eventually
established himself as a leading actor in many stage productions at
MKhAT. There his stage partners were such actors as
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy,
Yekaterina Vasilyeva,
Tatyana Doronina,
Oleg Efremov,
Evgeniy Evstigneev,
Oleg Tabakov,
Aleksandr Kalyagin,
Andrei Popov and other notable
Russian actors. After the split of the troupe in 1987, he was a member
of MKhAT named after
Anton Chekhov, where his stage partners included many notable Russian actors.
Igor Vasilyev was designated People's Actor of Russia. He played
leading and supporting roles in about 30 film and television
productions. He died of a heart failure on December 23, 2007, and was
laid to rest in Troekurovskoe cemetery in Moscow, Russia.
Perom i shpagoy(2007)as Starukha
Ocharovanie zla(2006)as General Skoblin
MUR est MUR(2004)as Ferapontov
Babi Yar(2002)
Iskusheniye Dirka Bogarda(2001)as Dirk Bogarde in hoary age
Letters from Karelia(2004)as Russian
SSSR. Znak kachestva(2019)as Georg von Schlosser (segment: Variant Omega)
